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CONTENTS
VOL 24, NO 6. JULY 2013
224 Ventilation during cardiopulmonary bypass did not attenuate inflammatory response or
affect postoperative outcomes
AB Durukan • HA Gurbuz • N Salman • EU Unal • HI Ucar • CEM Yorgancioglu
231 Long QT syndrome in South Africa: the results of comprehensive genetic screening
PL Hedley • GA Durrheim • F Hendricks • A Goosen • C Jespersgaard • B Støvring • TT Pham •
M Christiansen • PA Brink • VA Corfield
238 Gender and ethnic differences in the control of hyperlipidaemia and other vascular risk
factors: insights from the CEntralised Pan-South African survey on tHE Under-treatment
of hypercholeSterolaemia (CEPHEUS SA) study
N Rapeport • CL Schamroth • DJ Blom
Drug Trends in Cardiology
243 Anticoagulation: ‘Putting new evidence into clinical practice’
G Hardy
PUBLISHED ONLINE
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Case Reports
e1 New vascular ring connectors in surgery for intramural haematoma of the abdominal
aorta progressing to rupture
C-H Lee • L-W Ko • Y-C Lin • C-C Yen • H-Y Yang • C-H Kao • C-S Tsai • Y-T Tsai
e4 Endovascular stent-graft repair for abdominal aortic aneurysm in a patient with a short
and severely angulated proximal aortic neck
AE-Y Her • YH Kim